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There are two main reasons that I put this game on the list, and the first is simply this: Wolfenstein 3D set the baseline for pretty much all first person shooters in the nineties. Sure, when you look at it now you can clearly some signs of its age, but at its core it still holds up fairly nice so it's easy to see how it made such an impact.

EV Nova is a heavily story driven space exploration game, in fact during an average playthrough you will probably spend about as much time reading as you will do traveling through space, or battling other ships. As the third game in the series it has a lot of improvements compared to the predecessors, and that has helped the game to age considerably well.
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This 2005 indie title is a metroidvania style game made as a tribute to games from the past, specifically of the MSX computer variety. That means retro graphics, chiptunes, and insane difficulty. Many puzzles require you to make extensive notes about information you find scattered around the world, often nowhere near the puzzle it relates to. Dealing with bosses and enemies
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Like the Wii had Wii Sports to give people an idea of how motion controls could work the Wii U was given Nintendo Land to show of the game pad. It has a good variety of attractions with 3 single player/co-op ones, another 3 that are versus, and 6 that are single player. All paying homage in some way to titles from Nintendo's history.

This was something I had waited for a long time before it even was announced, a return to the series roots with a top down view and the freedom to do the games dungeons in whatever order you felt like. The fact that it took place in the same world as A Link to the Past was just a bonus.